import time

Today is a special date, well actually an special UNIX date, according to the UNIX calendar -which is measured in seconds after January 1 1970- we are approaching date 1234567890 at precisely 18:31:30.

So in anticipation, let's write a little clock script:

import time
while True:
    print int(time.time())
    time.sleep(1)

Or if you prefer a countdown clock like myself:

import time
t = True
while t:
    t = 123456789 - int(time.time())
    print t
    time.sleep(1)
else:
    print "Happy valentine ^_^!"

Linux Keyboards

 I found these keyboards made by ZaReason with Ubuntu and Tux logos instead of Windows logos in their Super/Meta keys, personally I think a more conservative and subtle logo is more fit for these keys, the original meta key used a solid diamond. There is no official Super logo, but a star was proposed and I think it would look great.

Unix assumed

I was reading over the documentation for Jinja2 when I realized that they assume you are running a Unix with sudo installed. No instructions for Windows or for installing from tarballs are given.

This means that that every day more and more developers are using unix as a platform.
Now I'm aware that MacOS X also includes sudo, and I suppouse some flavor of BSD does too,
so this doesn't count as a victory for linux, much less Ubuntu, but at least is not a defeat, its progress overall for the future of free desktops.

You know what makes me really happy? And apt line ^_^!

Anyway, shouldn't there be a way to automate the inclusion of a repostory and installation of software? What happened to klick, autopackage and 0install? Those are very good proposals that haven't got enough momentum. However I think whatever default mechanism for installation Ubuntu adopts will become the default for desktop oriented distros, that's the momentum Ubuntu has in the linux community.